INFERNO II (working title) by Larry Niven and Jerry
Pournelle. 70,000 words as of April 2007. Should be completed by
end of April 2007; after editorial consultation with Bob Gleason of Tor
may be finished by June 2007. Sequel to Inferno.

Working Title: Mojave Rising. That won't be the
final title. This is a story to create a new universe, one that starts
now in a time of American Hegemony and the Patriot Act and the
Department of Homeland Security. It will do for this timeline what the
CoDominium series did for that timeline. I started the CoDominium books
in 1971, and they had a pretty good run: for a while there it really did
look as if things would go that way. The Seventy Years War AKA the Cold
War ended with a whimper, and other things happened. Francis Fukuyama
predicted "The End of History" but in fact history has not ended.

This novel takes place a few years from now. There is still
terrorism. The US is still responding. Anarcho-tyranny hasn't taken over
but there has been more of a trend toward the police making easy collars
and leaving the tough cases alone. There is more money. Computers make
it a lot easier to identify and track people. There is a real threat
from terrorists, but there is also a real threat to liberty from what we
do to ourselves. There are good guys and bad guys on both sides of the
law. And a boy is caught up in it and grows to be a man...

This book is still in progress. Progress is slow.

LISABETTA A story set in more or less the world of Higher
Education. In progress.

MAMELUKES: Latest Janissaries Novel. I have 75,000
words done of about 80,000. There are many new characters, as well
as all -- ALL -- of the old ones. A lot happens. A LOT. Some
happens off stage in the High Commission: I have no viewpoint characters
who can see that, but the effects will be felt both on Earth and Tran.

I've been working pretty steadily on this. Watch out for Ghurkas...

Alas, as of Spring, 2007 I haven't finished this. It is about next on
my schedule, after Inferno II, and I expect to turn it in to Ace in
July, 2007. Portions of Mamelukes are available to subscribers in the
subscriber only area of the
Chaos Manor Reviews web site.

BURNING TOWER: Sequel to Burning City. Is now finished and
available for pre-order on Amazon. Should be published in book stores late 2004,
but certainly by early 2005 by Simon and
Schuster.
Watch for it, order copies early.

Burning Tower is as good a "hard" fantasy as we know how to write,
and my wife made me go through and put new scenes in it to help
character development. I cannot imagine anyone who likes the kind of
work Niven and I do who won't like this book. THIS BOOK IS DONE
and in print.

BURNING MOUNTAIN the third volume in the BURNING CITY (buy
that one if you don't have it) series is in planning stage. No date. Not
scheduled. No contract as yet.

HIGH TECH WARS in two volumes: Pournelle on how to make war and what
kind of military we need. Discusses why there are two military concepts
we must choose between: what is right for EMPIRE and what is right for a
Republic. There's also what is best if we want to muck about being the
world policeman, but in fact NOTHING will let us do that properly.
Republics need one kind of military (mostly Navy, with the Marines to
fight Small Wars); Empires need something else entirely, an army more
than good enough to best any client states; let the client states fight
the small wars and do the messy work of anti-terrorism.

There's also what we need to fight the WAR AGAINST THE UNIVERSE
namely saving the planet from Lucifer's Hammer...

These are still "in progress" and I plead pressure of other work. I
have not abandoned these books.

Spartan Hegemony: outline stage. Not much more done than that.

Falkenberg on Kennicott: also outline stage.

I hope to get up ALL my old BYTE columns with web exclusives, and links and so
forth, but it has been a big job putting
all that together, and much is historical now. Bear with me.